Some aestheticians, e.g., Peter Kivy,' are Platonists about pieces of music. They hold that a piece of music is the sound structure indicated by the notation, and that performances are (or, present) tokens of the sound structure, i.e., tokens of a type. Other philosophers, e.g., Jerrold Levinson, deny this; in Kivy's terminology they are anti-Platonists. Levinson holds that the essential charac...

On Ju ly 5, 1981, John Howard Northrop will reach the venerable age of four score and ten. He is active and well for a man of his age but a bit unhappy that his diminished eyesight makes him no longer the skeet supermarksman he once was. The Editors of The Journal of General Physiology and some of Dr. Northrop's friends wish to use this occasion to express their grati tude for his 62-year-long ...

John Walker Barber-Lomax, always known to family and friends alike as Jack, and to colleagues as B-L, died on 13 April. He was born on 4 December 1914, near Bolton, Lancashire. After Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge, he proceeded to St Thomas' Hospital for a medical training but changed course and went up to the Liverpool veterinary school where he took the Golding prize in veterinary ...

farm machinery managers often need to make complex economic decisions on machinery replacement. repair and maintenance costs can have significant impacts on this economic decision. the farm manager must be able to predict farm machinery repair and maintenance costs. this study aimed to identify a regression model that can adequately represent the repair and maintenance costs in terms of machine...

We performed whole-brain fMRI to explore the neural mechanisms that contribute to the ability to manipulate an object with complex dynamics. Subjects grasped a weighted flexible ruler and balanced it in an unstable equilibrium position as an archetype of grasping an object with complex dynamics. This was contrasted with squeezing a soft foam ball as an archetype of grasping an object with simpl...

In a note published in this journal 2019, Sebastian Sobecki drew attention to new life-record for John Lydgate. The document, which dates late January or early February 1425, is of significance because it offers the earliest surviving record Lydgate's tenure as prior Hatfield Regis. However, only refers him John, Here author would like present three life-records from 1424, all mention Lydgate b...

john hick’s pluralism hypothesis is an endeavor from and within christian tradition to explain the relation of christianity with other world religions. his basically claim is that all religions epistemologically have the same value and do well in leading their followers to the ultimate salvation. for justifying his claim, hick has to defend his hypothesis at two levels: first he has to defend t...

It is ironic that our recent report on the neural correlates of Chinese dyslexia (Siok, Perfetti, Jin, & Tan, 2004) raises a concern by Ziegler (2006) that this report could undermine an agreed-upon conclusion favoring a phonological deficit as the cause of reading disability. Our past research over 20 years in English (Perfetti, 1985) and Chinese (Perfetti, Liu, & Tan, 2005; Pollatsek, Tan, & ...